German SPD Seeks Three-Way Alliance to Replace Merkel-Led Coalition

Germany’s Social Democrats said on Monday they would start the process of trying to forge a three-way alliance and lead a government for the first time since 2005 after they narrowly won Sunday’s national election. The Social Democrats’ candidate for chancellor Olaf Scholz said he aims to build a coalition with the Greens and the Free Democrats. He also said Germans had voted to send Angela Merkel’s conservatives into opposition after 16 years in power  “What you see here is a very happy SPD,” Scholz, 63, told cheering supporters at his party’s headquarters in Berlin, clutching a bunch of…